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A Yahoo Search Calls Up a Chief From Google — Updated — Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next chief of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America. — The appointment of Ms. Mayer is consider a coup for Yahoo …

Yahoo! Appoints Marissa Mayer Chief Executive Officer — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced that it has appointed Marissa Mayer as President and Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors effective July 17, 2012.

Great Hire: Marissa Mayer Is Just What Yahoo Needs — Surprise! Early and long-time Google executive Marissa Mayer is the new CEO of Yahoo - an unexpected, huge headline hire. — This is a great move for Yahoo, which has stewed in mediocrity for years.

Microsoft unveils the new Office — Delivers Office as a cloud service while harnessing innovations enabled by Windows 8 — Today, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office, available at office.com/preview.

Apple Rolling Out iCloud.com Email Addresses with iOS 6 Beta 3 — With today's release of iOS 6 Beta 3 to developers, Apple has revealed in the update's change log that it is beginning the first stages of transitioning users from the me.com email addresses and Apple IDs available under MobileMe to new addresses using icloud.com.

Introducing a Simpler Homepage — Millions of you are coming to LinkedIn everyday to discover and discuss what matters most to your professional life. And today, we've started to roll out a simpler and easier way to navigate Homepage experience that offers quick access to the relevant information …

With Apple's Siri, a Romance Gone Sour — Late last summer, I was introduced to a new special someone. I wasn't looking to meet this new muse, it all just kind of happened. — We met at an Apple product announcement in Cupertino, Calif. She was helpful, smart and even funny, cracking sarcastic jokes and making me laugh.

Live Nation buys music discovery app Rexly — As part of an ongoing effort to bring bleeding-edge innovation back to ticketing conglomerate Live Nation, the company's months-old investment vehicle, LN Labs, has acquired social music discovery startup Rexly. — Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.

US ‘the enemy’ says Dotcom judge — The judge due to hear Kim Dotcom's extradition case has referred to the United States as “the enemy” in a discussion about copyright law. — District Court Judge David Harvey has heard parts of the case against the Megaupload founder …

An iPad Lover's Take On The Nexus 7 — Trolls, feel free to skip to the bottom of this column and post your comments immediately without reading a word. Actually, who are we kidding — you didn't make it this far. — Everyone else, brace yourselves. You may want small children to leave the room.

Largest BitTorrent Trackers Go Offline in Protest — OpenBitTorrent (OBT) and PublicBitTorrent (PBT) are two non-profit BitTorrent trackers running on the beerware licensed Opentracker software. Neither service hosts or links to torrent files and both are free to use by all BitTorrent users.